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Severs disease is the most common issue I have seen recently with children. The majority of them currently play football extensively! It’s also called calcaneal apophysitis and its not really a disease, but an over use injury where by the growth plate in the heel can become inflamed and painful due to excessive force and […]
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So we are three seasons into our grassroots journey, and loving every minute. There are a few things we wish we had known from the start which I wanted to pass on to parents starting their grassroots journey….. Always keep a spare bottle of water in the car. You will forget one day; you think […]
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Stephen Hunt, a disability football coach for over 20 years from Merseyside, is the Nationwide Building Society Mutual Respect Award for May 2021. ‘Ste’, who has Spina Bifida, is 50 years old and a player and coach for FC PHAB in Liverpool. Over the last two decades, he has coached over 500 local players with […]
“Anyone who tells you they can spot a professional player at five years old is basically lying,” says former talent ID manager Nick Levett, an expert in the eight to 11-year-old age group. Scouting football players as young as five, persuading an 11-year-old to sign a contract with private school education or offering a teenager’s […]
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We want your boots! Join our mission to rehome at least one million pairs of quality football boots across the UK, to stop them ending up in landfill. That’s the same as taking 7,000 cars off the road for a year, in carbon reductions. Get started HERE Football is back! There’s no better time to […]
Ray Lee, a football coach for 150 young players every week at Chigwell FC and in East London, is the Nationwide Mutual Respect Award for April 2021. The Nationwide Mutual Respect Award, as part of The Football Association’s Respect Campaign, aims to help make grassroots football more respectful and positive. The brand-new award recognises outstanding […]
FA Press Release “We will join the Premier League, EFL, PFA, LMA, PGMOL, Kick It Out, Women in Football and the FSA in uniting for a social media boycott from 3pm on Friday 30 April to 11.59pm on Monday 3 May, in response to the ongoing and sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and […]
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Liv Hall, a 21-year old junior football coach volunteer for Yorkshire Coast Football Academy based in Scarborough, is the Nationwide Mutual Respect Award for March 2021. The Nationwide Mutual Respect Award, as part of The Football Association’s Respect Campaign, aims to help make grassroots football more respectful and positive. The brand-new award recognises outstanding contributions, […]
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How did it go for you lot then?! The moment we’ve all been waiting for finally happened this week – and, for us, it was like it’s never been away. My lad’s team, Netherton Colts U13s South, have been back in weeknight training not once but twice already, taking maximum advantage of the easing of […]
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The FA announces new blueprint for grassroots football as millions return to play post-lockdown from Monday A commitment to equal access for girls in schools and clubs and 5,000 new pitches amongst a number of ambitious FA targets FA to invest over £180m into grassroots football to serve and lead the game over the next […]
Read More… from THE FA LAUNCH NEW LONG-TERM GRASSROOTS STRATEGY AS FOOTBALL SET FOR RETURN
